Steve Reich
Steve Reich
Stephen Michael Reichis an American composer who, along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass, pioneered minimal music in the mid to late 1960s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth3 October 1936
CountryUnited States of America
pieces alive kicking
All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period piece. It had its moment, and that was it.
interesting phases unison
I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other...
facts matter matter-of-fact
As a matter of fact, I personally would much rather hear Perotin than Mozart.
process series serials
in serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.